Here we are on orders from Santa taking a load of stocking coal for all of the bad children. It's not too often you see a steam engine pulling a revenue freight these days all dolled up for Christmas. I thought you might get a smile out of it so here it is.

The wife is pregnant so it is obvious that she has been naughty and it is going to take a pile of coal to fill up those fishnet stockings that was the start of the naughtiness. Thankfully I have a fed stove so the nut coal or stove sized coal won't fall through the holes of that fish net.

I felt bad when they ripped the rails up in Downeast Maine, but as a railroader I also know the sad truth; if trains were ever to run on those rails again they would have to replace the ties and rails. That would be several million dollars a mile so I don't see the trains coming back soon.

I will say though that the MDOT was smart enough to retain the right of ways so that they can go back and install rails IF railroads become viable again. Who knows, maybe Maine Two-Footers were just ahead of their time!